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Example sentences for "seven leagues"

  • Alluvial earth carried successively from south to north need not surprise us in the Orinoco; but to what shall we attribute the same phenomenon in the bed of the Apure, seven leagues west of its mouth?

  • Between the two points last mentioned, a distance, according to Byron, of seven leagues S.

  • About nine leagues north from Cape Tierawitte, and under the same shore, is a high and remarkable island which may be distinctly seen from Queen Charlotte's Sound, from which it is distant about six or seven leagues.

  • At seven leagues we came to the San Joaquin River, or, as it is called the River of the Tulares.

  • At seven leagues we came to the village of Atongai; a league and a half from this village there is a swamp full of water.

  • From noon of the 14th till noon of the 15th, we made twenty-seven leagues N.

  • We accordingly went down some six or seven leagues on the 2d, but they did not follow us; wherefore on the 3d we stood up again, and anchored fairly in sight of them.

  • Brinjan, from which to Cape Comorin it is seven leagues E.

  • It is seven leagues in circumference and three leagues wide.

  • It is seven leagues in circumference and is inhabited by about two hundred Visayan Indians.

  • According to this, the broadest part of the Ganges is seven leagues across.

  • The few natives which inhabited it, fed on the pearl oysters, and had to bring their water in canoes from the continent of Cumana, seven leagues distant, giving seed pearls in payment to those who brought it over.

  • Geeminassi in Banda; but, on a nearer approach, they discovered three other hills more like it in the north, some six or seven leagues distant, which they were convinced were that hill of Banda.

  • At one in the morning I discovered another, bearing W N W, five leagues distance, and at eight o'clock I saw it for the last time, bearing N E seven leagues.

  • At three in the morning, with an excess of joy, we discovered Timor bearing from W S W to W N W, and I hauled on a wind to the N N E till day-light, when the land bore from S W by S about two leagues to N E by N seven leagues.

  • At noon, the island Roti bore S W by W seven leagues.


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